A comparative Study on Resilience of Pastoral and AgroPastoral Households to Climate-induced Shocks and Stresses in Asayita Woreda of Afar Regional State, Ethiopia

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2019-06

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Addis Ababa University

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Change in climate and climate extremes are acknowledged as a vital challenge to pastoral production systems. Alternative systems that are accessible to a household in order to make a living could determine the household’s resilience at a given point in time. The present study was conducted in Asayita wereda of Afar region in Ethiopia to assess the resilience of pastoralists and agro pastoralist to climate induced shocks and stresses. A household questionnaire survey, key informant interview and focus group discussion were employed to collect primary data required for the study. A total of 115HHs (63 pastoral and 52 agro pastoral households) were sampled using stratified random sampling technique for household survey and purposive sampling for KI and FGD. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics and a multivariate method called principal component analysis to determine the weight (factor loadings) of each resilience dimension and compute resilience index at household level. A multiple linear regression model was also used to assess factors determining the resilience of household to climate induced shocks and stresses in the study areas. Accordingly, asset, adaptive capacity, social safety nets, access to public services, income and food access and stability were identified to be the different dimensions used to estimate the resilience status of households in the study area. Further results revealed that pastoralists were less resilient than agro-pastoralists in all dimensions, except social safety nets. Enhancing livestock assets and productivity, social safety nets, access to market, credit, extension services and education, improving irrigation crop farming, and providing farm inputs significantly enhanced the resilience of households to climate induced shocks and stresses. irrigation crop farming, livestock ownership, education level, per capita income, mobility and herd splitting, herd composition change, labor, remittance, food aid, access to credit, market and formal early warning information were significant factors determining resilience of households to climateinduced shocks and stresses. Therefore, to improve the resilience of pastoral and agro pastoral households, the government and its development partners must target at strategies that address the above mentioned factors in general and factors related to the adaptive capacity and asset dimensions for pastoral households in particular in the study area. Keywords: Agro pastoralist, Afar, Ethiopia, Livelihood, pastoralist, Resilience

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Agro pastoralist, Afar, Ethiopia, Livelihood, pastoralist, Resilience

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